MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Lawsuit for damages against Uğur Dündar
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Uğur Dündar
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2021
LAST UPDATED
11/11/2021
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Print Media
Newspaper
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
Journalist
RIGHTS GUARANTEED UNDER THE RIGHT OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Right to Impart Information and Ideas
TYPE OF INTERFERENCE
Judicial Interference
Public Prosecution Offices
Opening a criminal investigation
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Civil Code
Art. 25

As reported by T24 news website, Sezgin Baran Korkmaz, who is on trial in both Turkey and the US on charge of international money laundering and arrested in Austria upon the request of the US, filed a lawsuit for non-pecuniary damages on the grounds that journalist Uğur Dündar “attacked his personal rights” in an article (November 11).